CanadianCRC Editor:
This article contains sexist wording that would never have been used had the rapist been a man and it was sex with the 14 year old female.
We have highlighted the sexists words in red. REVERSE the genders on
this story and see how it looks. What a double standard!

35-year-old Saskatchewan woman mistakenly thought
14-year-old boy was of age to consent

CBC News, By Kathleen Harris, CBC News, Jul 06, 2017

The Supreme Court of Canada will explain Friday why it threw out
sexual assault charges against a woman who had sex with ( try sexually assaulted)the 14-year-old
friend of her son.

In May, justices ruled that Saskatchewan resident Barbara George, who
was 35 at the time of the sexual encounter, should not face a new trial
for sexual interference and sexual assault. It will present written
reasons for that decision.

The crux of the case is around age of consent, and a section of the
Criminal Code that requires an adult to take "reasonable steps" to
determine the age of a person before engaging in sex with them.

George was acquitted of the charges because the trial judge found the
sexual activity was "factually consensual" — that she honestly believed
the boy was at least 16, and there was reasonable doubt she had not
taken all reasonable steps to determine the age of "C.D.," whose full
name is protected by a publication ban.

He was attending a party at her home the night of the encounter.

According to documents filed by the appellant with the Supreme Court,
George assumed C.D. was over the age of 16 because he had facial hair, a
mature demeanour and apparent sexual experience. He also smoked and took
care of his younger siblings.

Change the gender and see how this looks: And if the above read
that "The girl had a mature body with large mature breasts and curved hips, a
mature demeanour and apparent sexual experience. He also smoked and took
care of his younger siblings. "

According to the documents, George did not realize how old he was
until several months later, when she applied to become an RCMP officer.
One of the questions on the questionnaire asked if she had ever had
sexual activity with someone under 16.

RCMP application leads to charges

After checking with her son about the age of C.D., she answered the
form in the affirmative.

That led to an RCMP investigation and subsequent charges laid against
her.

George was acquitted at trial. While the judge said she exhibited
an "appalling lack of judgment" by talking to the complainant in her
bedroom for several hours that night, there was not enough evidence to
show she deliberately broke the law.

The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal, in a majority decision, allowed the
Crown's subsequent appeal, sending the matter to the country's highest
court.

"This case involves a 35-year-old woman who was the sole parent and
adult at a high school party when she had sexual intercourse with a boy
who was half her age and young enough to be her teenage son," reads a
court document filed by the respondent, the Attorney General of
Saskatchewan.

"Despite all of that, she took no steps to ascertain the
complainant's age before she had sex with him. In fact, she did not turn
her mind to the issue of the complainant's age at all until months
later."

In 2008, the Conservative government led by Stephen Harper raised the
legal age of consent in Canada from 14 to 16, the first change to the
law since 1892.
More..

SYDNEY, N.S. -- A judge has harshly criticized a Nova Scotia
woman who changed her son's last name without consent from his
father, calling her conduct "devious, manipulative and
indefensible."

Justice Theresa Forgeron said the mother arranged to forge
the father's signature on an application to change the boy's
name.

"(The mother) was strategic and manipulative throughout,"
said Forgeron in a written decision from the Supreme Court
Family Division in Sydney, N.S.

"(Her) story does not have an internal consistency or logical
flow, nor is it in harmony with the preponderance of
probabilities which a practical and informed person would find
reasonable given the particular place and conditions."
More..

An orgasm is probably not the first thing that comes
to mind when you think of childbirth.

But those who’ve had a “birthgasm,” as it’s called,
will tell you the pain of childbirth can very
suddenly turn to pleasure.

In
a literary review published last month in the
Journal of Holistic Nursing, Australian researchers
write that the phenomenon is more common than you’d
think — but few women feel comfortable talking about it.

“The sexuality of childbirth is not well recognized
in Western society,” the review reads. It calls for
“greater awareness … of the potential of orgasm as a
means of pain relief in childbirth.”

Elizabeth Davis, director of the U.S. National
Midwifery Institute, kept her “orgasmic birth” a secret
for almost 20 years. She was afraid people would think
she was crazy.
More..

Mother sentenced to 30 years in jail after prosecutors call her
an 'egocentric, manipulative liar'

The Independent, UK, October 20th, 2016

A mother has been found guilty of beating and strangling her
eight-year-old son to death, after he walked in on her having sex with
his grandfather.

Veronica Panarello was sentenced to 30 years in jail at a court in
south-east Sicily after it emerged she had strangled her son Loris
Stival with electrical cables, and thrown his body into a ditch near the
family home.
More ..

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. USA -- The mother of a 10-year-old New
Mexico girl found dead and dismembered told police she
sought men online and at work to sexually assault her
daughter, according to warrants obtained by the
Albuquerque Journal.

Michelle Martens told police that she had set up
encounters with at least three men to sexually assault
her daughter, the Albuquerque Journal reported. The child's death
sparked vigils and outcry across the state.

Martens, 35, told investigators that one of the men
was a co-worker. Two others she met online, including
Fabian Gonzales, 31. He was to be the last.

Martens, Gonzales, and Jessica Kelley -- a cousin of
Gonzales -- all face charges in connection with Victoria
Martens' death.

Police found Victoria Martens' dismembered body last
month inside the apartment she shared with her mother.

According to the warrants, Martens told investigators
she didn't do it for the money. Martens said she set up
the sexual assaults because she enjoyed watching. More..

Mississauga Ontario Disability Support Program Office (ODSP) incompetence and beating up sick disabled people

Opinion

Nadia Mustillo, Program Manager for ODSP, including the Mississauga ODSP office can't even get the publicly available employee's directory right or is it
the fault of Ontario's Ministry of Community and Social Services Deputy
Minister Janet Menard's who broke her October 2015 commitment to
the president of the Canadian Children's Rights Council to fix
the problem. The directory shows only one manager out of 3
for the Mississauga Office. The ODSP Mississauga managers, as
verified on May 4th, 2016 are actually Christine Linsley, Denise
Ryckman and Paula Banfield.

Tiffany Lundrigan an ODSP Mississauga caseworker took a year to process $479, one month's shelter allowance as well as shelter for more than 15 months.

An Alberta government employee is under investigation after Edmonton
police discovered as many as 60 sensitive files in the province’s
maintenance enforcement program may have been accessed inappropriately.

About 18,600 single parents in
Ontario who rely on both social assistance and child
support payments will see their incomes rise under rule
changes to be introduced early next year, according to
Thursday’s
provincial budget.

Currently, every penny of the
average $280 monthly child support payment to families
on social assistance is clawed back by the government,
meaning children are “no better off” and the parent
responsible for paying may feel little incentive to do
so, the budget notes.

Several options are under
consideration to ensure parents who receive child
support can benefit from more of this income, said a
government official. The change would be in place by
April 2017 at the latest, the official predicted.

Child poverty activists have
been calling for an end to the clawback for years,
pointing to British Columbia that ended the practice
last year.

“Ending the dollar-for-dollar
clawback is stellar news for single parents on social
assistance,” said Jennefer Laidley of the Income
Security Advocacy Centre, a legal aid clinic that
supports Ontarians on welfare and disability benefits.
More..

Truth and Reconciliation Commission said in its final report that ‘corporal punishment is a relic of a discredited past and has no place in Canadian schools or homes’

OTTAWA The Globe and Mail, Canada's largest national newspaper, Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015, by Gloria Galloway

In promising to enact all of the
recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the
federal Liberals have agreed to remove a section of law that allows
parents to spank their kids without fear of prosecution.

Groups that oppose corporal punishment
of children have spent many years urging successive governments in
Ottawa to repeal Section 43 of the Criminal Code that permits
parents and teachers to use reasonable force to correct the
behaviour of youngsters in their care.

The Truth and Reconciliation
Commission, which heard thousands of tales of physical abuse inside
Indian residential schools, said in its final report that “corporal
punishment is a relic of a discredited past and has no place in
Canadian schools or homes.” The repeal of Section 43 was No. 6 on a
list of 94 “calls to action” included in the report, which was made
public last week.

When asked if Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau’s promise to act on every TRC recommendation meant repealing
the so-called spanking law, a spokesman for Justice Minister Jody
Wilson-Raybould would only say the government remains committed to
implementing all of the commission’s calls to action.

In 2004, the Supreme Court of Canada
ruled that physical force was acceptable within certain bounds – it
cannot be used on children under the age of 2, it cannot involve
implements such as a paddle or a belt and blows to a child’s head
are not allowed. Teachers and faith-based groups praised the
decision, saying the people who are responsible for raising children
must have the leeway to decide when moderate physical discipline is
required.
More..

The Ontario government should
make it mandatory for all children’s aid societies to
collect and make public race-based data on kids in their
care.

The recommendation — along
with a call for an African-Canadian society to support
Toronto-area black families — is included in a position
paper by the Black Community Action Network (BCAN) of
Peel. It will be released Wednesday morning at a
Brampton conference of Peel community leaders and
children’s aid society officials.

“The collection and
dissemination of that data is critical to be able to
assess whether the kinds of services that we have
available are effective, to hold some of these agencies
accountable for the kinds of services they are
delivering,” Dr. Julian Hasford, the paper’s author and
a community psychologist, said in an interview.

“I don’t think that we’re
going to be able to make informed and effective
decisions with respect to system change without that
information.”

The group also wants the Peel
Children’s Aid Society to follow the lead of the
Children’s Aid Society of Toronto and report publicly on
the proportion of children in care — and the number of
families involved with the society — who are black.
More..

December 4, 2015

Liberals under pressure to fix Ontario’s child protection system

( above is headline The Toronto Star newspaper website )

website version - In more than half of child abuse investigations reviewed by auditor general Bonnie Lysyk’s office, the children’s aid societies failed to make mandatory checks of the Ontario Child Abuse Register.

The Ontario government is under
pressure to fix a child protection system criticized by the
auditor general for putting some children in “serious risk.”

In her report, Bonnie Lysyk
describes a child protection system riddled with problems,
from badly conducted abuse investigations to a floundering
Ministry of Children and Youth Services that fails to
oversee Ontario’s privately run children’s aid societies.

At stake are the lives of 15,625
children who, on average, were in foster or group-home care
in 2014-15, and the well-being of thousands more
investigated for possible abuse.

In more than half of child abuse
investigations reviewed by Lysyk’s office, the children’s
aid societies failed to make mandatory checks of the Ontario
Child Abuse Register. The register would note if caregivers
had a history of abuse.

“Failure to conduct these crucial
history checks puts children in serious risk of being placed
or left in the care of individuals with a history of abusing
children,” Lysyk’s report states.
More..

By targeting protesters for searches and not letting them proceed,
York Police violated Charter rights in June 2010, the appeals court
decides.

Sgt. Mark Charlebois, left,
of the York Regional Police found guilty of violating
Canada's Charter of Rights and
Freedoms. On June 27,
2010, he stated eloquently "This ain't Canada right now. ... There is
no civil rights in this area." Nearly five years
later The Court of Appeal of Ontario found him guilty of violating Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

In a decision being hailed as a victory for civil
liberties, the Court of Appeal has ruled that a group of
G20 demonstrators who were prevented from approaching
the security fence unless they submitted to a search had
their Charter rights violated.

“It’s a victory for peaceful demonstrators,” said Kiel
Ardal, one of the lawyers who argued the case. “We hope
that police change their behaviour because of this
ruling.” More ....

Young woman, who was 15 when she was arrested, led operation that trafficked
other teen girls

CBC News Nov 04, 2014

An 18-year-old who led an operation that trafficked other teenagers using
social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter today received an adult
sentence of 6½ years in a correctional facility. The young woman was given
credit for time she's already served in pre-sentence custody, meaning she
will only serve another two years and 325 days.

The 18-year-old was arrested
in 2012, when she was 15, for leading the operation with two other teens as
they recruited other girls through social media sites like Facebook and
Twitter, before drugging and beating them and forcing them into
prostitution.

The 18-year-old was the only one who pleaded not guilty in her trial, but
she was found guilty this January. The two other teens entered mid-trial
guilty pleas in September 2013 for their roles in the violent pimping
operation.

Under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, the 18-year-old faced a
maximum sentence of three years. Under the adult Criminal Code, she faced a
minimum sentence of five years. More ...

‘We had to make a decision whether the story was palatable for
people to read with their breakfast in the morning. A decision
was made this couldn’t be reported. It was too horrific,’ said
Peter Lalor, journalist with The Australian.

Psychopathic husband killer Katherine Knight of Australia butchered her
husband , skinned him and cooked him up for the children. This has to be
the worst case of domestic violence we have ever seen.

Knight methodically skinned Price’s corpse, taking off the entire skin, including his face, ears, scalp and neck, like a ghoulish suit. The macabre suit of skin was
then hung up on a hook in the entrance of the house, where it
remained until it was removed by the horrified police officers.
More ..

WINNIPEG — Winnipeg police now say the bodies of six babies were
found in a U-Haul locker Monday afternoon and have made an arrest in
connection to the horrifying incident.

Police provided an update Wednesday morning and said it was not
three or four infant bodies as originally thought that were found in
the storage locker.

Andrea Giesbrecht, 40, of Winnipeg, who police say also goes by
Andrea Naworynski, has been charged with six counts of concealing
the body of a child and one breach of probation. She was arrested at
a home, police said.

The offences are alleged to have occurred between March 7 and
Oct. 20.

Police spokesman Const. Eric Hofley could not provide much more
detail on how the babies were killed, why they were there, or what
their relation is to the accused.

Hofley said the case has not been turned over to the homicide
unit because more details still need to come to light on many
lingering questions.

Hofley said homicide charges have not been laid, but have not
been ruled out.

"So many of the questions that I expect you have will be answered
forensically," Hofley said. "As you can see by the charges laid,
right now we don't have any information regarding a homicide."

Hofley said the child abuse unit is still investigating, but
acknowledged finding the answers may prove difficult.

"It's early in the investigation ... some of these questions may
never be answered," he said. More...

If five or more former residents
withdraw from the $29 million class-action settlement by
Monday, the terms of the agreement would allow the
provincial government to pull out of the deal.

Tony Smith, right, arrived at the orphanage as a five year old in 1965. He says he suffered physical and sexual abuse during his 3 ½ years in the home, an experience echoed by dozens of former residents who have since come forward with their own stories.

HALIFAX—Fifteen years after going public with his story
of child abuse, Tony Smith says he can’t believe the day has
come when a multi-million-dollar settlement involving a
Halifax-area orphanage stands on the verge of being
finalized.

The deadline for opting out of the $29-million
class-action settlement is Monday, a day the self-described
survivor of the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children says
is a dream come true.

“It’s like a burden had been lifted off of my back,”
Smith said in an interview. “I never thought it would
happen.”

Former residents of the home allege they suffered
physical, psychological and sexual abuse mostly at the hands
of caregivers while living in the orphanage, which opened in
1921 and operated for nearly 70 years.
More..

"It was a Woman" - Documentary on Female Sex Offenders - Predators

This is a very interesting 45 minute film telling the story of a female who was sexually abused by a woman and how she sought treatment and recovered. It features some of the best sources of treatment and authorities about female sex ofenders.

Made in 2013, the documentary includes an interview with Dr. Franca
Cortoni, a Clinical Forensic Psychologist who has over 10 year
experience studying female sex offenders, a therapist who treats victims
of female sexual predators, and highlights the problems for people
sexually abused in small communities in which sexual abuse is common.
it illustrates some of the reasons that victims of female sexula
predators can;t physically escape the presence of their abusers.

Stress on emergency assistance, not
prevention, solves little in the long run, professor says.

Professor Stephen Gaetz says homeless youth are thrust into adult roles
before their time and the transition is often traumatic.

The Toronto Star, by Leslie Ferenc, GTA, Mon Mar 03 2014

Canada falls short of meeting the needs of homeless youth
by treating them as adults and expecting shelter care to
solve the problem, according to a new report.

Many youth find themselves “languishing in a shelter for
four or five years when they should be in school learning to
be an adult with the supports they need . . . instead of
rushing them to be adults, living in poverty and becoming
chronically homeless adults,” says report author Stephen
Gaetz, a professor in York University’s education faculty
and director of the Homeless Hub (Canadian Homelessness
Research Network).

“By continuing to emphasize emergency supports, as
important as they are, rather than prevention or rapid
rehousing, our strategy is simply to manage the problem,” he
said.

Gaetz is author of
Coming of Age: Reimagining the Response to Youth
Homelessness in Canada which was released Monday.
More..

OTTAWA - An Ottawa teen who befriended girls on
Facebook and other social media, then forced them to
work as escorts, has been found guilty of 30 of 33
charges against her.

The 17-year-old — identified as the ringleader of
the group — was found guilty Wednesday on counts
including human trafficking, forcible confinement,
assault, robbery, sexual assault, child luring and
distributing child pornography.
More..

The Associated Press, USA, Published Thursday, Jan. 16 2014, By John Heilprin And Nicole Winfield

The dressing down came in the unlikeliest of places, a stuffy United
Nations conference room before an obscure human rights committee. After
decades of fending off accusations that its policies and culture of
secrecy had contributed to the global priest sex abuse scandal, the
Vatican was called to account.

UN experts interrogated The Holy See for eight hours on Thursday
about the scale of abuse and what it was doing to prevent it, marking
the first time the Vatican had been forced to defend its record at
length or in public.

It resembled a courtroom cross-examination, only no question was
off-limits, dodging the answer wasn’t an option and the proceedings were
webcast live.

The Vatican was compelled to appear before the committee as a
signatory to the UN Convention for the Rights of the Child, which among
other things calls for governments to take all adequate measures to
protect children from harm and ensure their interests are placed above
all else.

The Holy See was one of the first states to ratify the treaty in
1990, eager to contribute the church’s experience in caring for children
in Catholic schools, hospitals, orphanages and refugee centres. The Holy
See submitted a first implementation report in 1994, but didn’t provide
progress reports for nearly two decades until 2012. More..

Cindy Blackstock knew something was up when officials
threatened to cancel a 2009 meeting on aboriginal child
welfare if she was in the room. So she dutifully sat outside
the Parliament Hill office, watched by a security guard,
while deliberations continued within.

Blackstock is executive director of the First Nations
Child and Family Caring Society, a university professor,
author and recipient of awards for distinguished service
over 20 years in her field. The Ontario chiefs had invited
her to the meeting specifically because she is an expert in
child advocacy.

Baffled by what she terms the “extreme reaction” to her
presence, she filed a request under the Privacy Act and in
due course received a 2,500-page file on herself.

Married women — especially new brides — are
not just fantasizing about affairs, they’re going out and having
them.

Ashley Madison has seen
female newlywed membership in the GTA jump from
3,184 to 12,442 in the past year - an almost 300 per
cent increase.

CanadianCRC editor's commentary:

The Canadian Children's Rights Council provides information and
statistics on infidelity which can result in babies and paternity fraud. Infidelity is extremely damaging to parents' relationships and therefore
also to children.

It is in the best interests of children to be raised in families
with committed parents. Obviously a person who is "sexually
frustrated" right after he or she marries should examine why he or
she got married at all to that particular person or anyone,

A credible poll of 5,000 women found that about half would
lie to their husband about the identity of their child should
they become pregnant as a result of sex with a man other than
their husband. See
paternity fraud statistics and poll.

The Toronto Star, by Nicole Baute, Living Reporter, Published on Wed Apr 07 2010

Susan first dipped her toe into the murky cyberpool
of infidelity two years ago, when she was bored at home
on a day off from her part-time fitness job. Her
husband, a business executive seven years her senior,
was working, as usual.

Sexually frustrated and a little lonely, the
25-year-old started Googling “sex club” and “swingers
club” before stumbling upon AshleyMadison.com,
advertised as a “discreet dating service” for people in
relationships. Like most Torontonians, Susan, who did
not want her real name used, heard about it before.
More ..

Toronto mom Becky
McFarlane, seen here with daughter Levia, is one of 3
million Canadians
who grew up in poverty, escaped it and now is struggling
to keep away money problems.

More than one in seven Canadian children
currently lives in poverty. That number has
climbed steadily since the 1990s, and comes with
very real consequences — both social and
economic.

Children raised in poverty suffer from a
disproportionate amount of health problems, have
less education and are more likely to live in
poverty as adults. This in turn hurts our
economy, as we struggle with higher rates of
crime and joblessness, steeper health care
costs, fewer income taxes and a sagging social
safety net.

All told, poverty has been calculated to cost
Canada $72-$84 billion a year — that’s between
$2,299 and $2,895 per Canadian annually.

Unfortunately, poverty is as complex as it is
costly, and our attempts to eliminate it have
met with limited success. Yet there is cause for
hope. As we come to better understand why child
poverty leads to such poor outcomes — what
precise factors are at play — it becomes easier
to develop real and lasting solutions. More..

A woman has been sentenced to 27 months in prison in
connection to the death of her nine-week-old son in a
bizarre case where the infant boy’s body has yet to be
recovered.

Both parents Ricky Ray Doodhnaught, 32, and Nadia
Ayyad, 24, have been implicated in the case that dates
back to November 2011 when Children’s Aid workers along
with York Regional Police attempted to seize two
children under a court order from a Vaughan home.

Doodhnaught fled from police and CAS workers at that
time. Only one child was located and removed from the
home. Police believed Doodhnaught had taken their son
George with him.

After Doodhnaught was arrested several weeks later on
Dec. 6 and the boy was not located, he told police his
son, who was born prematurely, had died on or around
Nov. 1. The homicide unit was called in to investigate.
More..

While no one who has researched sex crimes believes that females
comprise more than a very small percentage of all sex criminals, a
number of factors conspire to keep these women from being detected and
prosecuted.

Studies consistently find that a vast majority of both male and female
victims of female sex offenders tell no one. Girls face the task of
convincing others that females can be abusive and that touch between
females can be sexualized. Males are not socialized to report
victimization. Their physiological responses can also confuse the issue
of consent, leaving them puzzling to explain how, if an erection was
present, there was still abuse, or how, if there was not, that sexual
acts still occurred.
More..

Canadian Jewish Rabbi Stated on TV Show That All Parents
Should Choose to Have Their Newborn Daughters and Sons
Circumcised ( Ritual Genital Mutilation or Female
Genital Cutting)

Organisations from around the world were stunned to
hear Rabbi Baruch Frydman-Kohl of the largest
conservative Jewish congregation in North America state
on TV that "
all
parents should have their children circumcised".

Rabbi Frydman-Kohl is the senior rabbi at Beth-Tzedec
Congregation in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with 2,700 member families, the largest
conservative Jewish congregation in North America.

The CHCH TV show "Square Off", which aired at 5:30pm on July 4,
2012 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, was in reaction to the
decision of the German court to ban ritual genital
cutting of males in that country.

The very next day after the show aired, it was taken
off the website of CHCH TV and it's affiliate TV station
in Montreal.

Advocating on the show for the rights of the child was Grant
Wilson, president of the Canadian Children's Rights
Council which opposes the genital mutilation, ritual
genital cutting or
circumcision of both male and female children. He
pointed out that Jewish baby girls have an automatic
covenant with God when they are born but Jewish baby
boys do not until their genitals have been mutilated.

Mr. Wilson pointed out the double standard in the
laws of Canada, a country in which it is a criminal
offence to cut the genitals of baby girls but which
allows male ritual genital cutting.

What's "Normal" in Canada and the United States isn't the
"Norm" elsewhere

The USA is the most male circumcised nation on earth and
not for religious reasons. In countries like Japan and Australia
males circumcision is virtually none existent with the exception
being certain Muslims and Jews.

Mr. Wilson also raised the issue of other stakeholders being
heard in the public debate about Male Genital Mutilation such as
Arab-Canadians, Muslims and Egyptian-Canadians, some of whom practice
both Male Genital Mutilation (MFM) and Female Genital Mutilation
FGM) and have
for thousands of years as both a religious ritual and tradition.
They can perform ritual genital cutting on their baby boys but not
their baby girls.

Rabbi Frydman-Kohl also stated that 5% of all male genital mutilations done by rabbis
involve the rabbi sucking the blood from the cut penis of the baby.
Baby boy deaths have be reported in New York from this
practice. A rabbi gave a baby herpes and the baby died. Do a search
on the Internet for " Baby dies Herpes circumcision" .

Grant Wilson, president of the Canadian Children's Rights Council
stated " All children should be protected from ritual genital
mutilation or cutting. We question by Jewish baby girls have an
automatic covenant with God but baby boys don't until they have been
through a traumatic, shocking genital mutilation. Canada protects
baby girls from female genital mutilation of all 4 types
categorized by the World Health Organization", some of which are
less invasive than the genital mutilation done on boys."

On this TV show Rabbi Frydman-Kohl explained that Jews would
fight to the death to preserve the male genital cutting.

Baby Dies from Herpes After Controversial Ritual Genital Cutting

Two-week-old baby who died of herpes 'contracted disease through
circumcision'

The Daily Mail, UK, By Daily Mail Reporter, 4 March 2012

The death of an baby boy who contracted herpes has been
linked to a controversial circumcision ritual.

The two-week-old
infant was struck with the disease after being circumcised as part
of an Orthodox Jewish ceremony.

During the ritual, the presiding
rabbi removes blood from the cut using his mouth.

The practice persists despite the health risks, with babies at risk of
contracting diseases which are relatively harmless to adults but
could be fatal for children.

The latest casualty of the tradition was the unidentified boy who died at Maimonides Hospital
in Brooklyn, New York in September, according to the Daily News.

His official cause of death was 'disseminated herpes simplex virus Type
1, complicating ritual circumcision with oral suction'. The identity
of the mohel - a religious official who specialises in circumcisions
- is unknown.

This is not the first time that an infant has died as a result of
the ultra-Orthodox ritual of metzizah b'peh, which is the practice
of using the mouth to remove blood. A baby boy died in New York in
2004 after undergoing the ceremony. Health experts have criticised
the ritual on the ground that it involves 'inherent risks' to
infants' health.

However, the practice seems to have originated as a
way of avoiding infection by cleaning the open wound in ancient times.

Fathers demand mandatory paternity testing

The Australian, Patricia Karvelas, February 16, 2011

A men's rights group has
called for mandatory paternity testing of all babies after government
figures revealed almost 600 instances of men compelled to financially
support children they did not father.

Since changes to child support laws four years ago, there had been 586 cases of men successfully using
DNA testing to show they were not biologically related to children
they had been financially supporting, the federal government has
revealed to The Australian.
More..

The Daily Telegragh, The Herald Sun, Australia, by Phil Jacob, August 11th, 2012

VIRGIN Airlines has been accused of treating men like
paedophiles, after it made a man swap seats because he was seated next
to two minors.

CanadianCRC position: This
misandry must stop. It's bad for men and children.

This type of discrimination against men and children must stop.
This indoctrinates children into believing that all men are
dangerous and that they must be protected from them. The
facts are that women commit more child abuse and neglect than
men ...... and that fact isn't probably based on their gender.
It is likely because they are doing more child care work.

All airlines which discriminate should be sued.

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms states

15. (1) Every individual is equal before and under the law and
has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the
law without discrimination and, in particular, without
discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour,
religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.

The airline's position is that segregation of males is wanted
by the parents of children traveling on their airplanes.

Can you even imagine an airline accommodating a parent who say
" I don't want my child sitting next to a black person, so move
the black person elsewhere if one sits next to my child."

Sydney fireman John McGirr, who wrote an online blog post titled "My
Virgin experience as a Paedophile", was on board a flight from Brisbane when
he was seated next to two males he estimates were between 8 and 10 years
old.

Just before take-off Mr McGirr was approached by a flight attendant, who
asked him to move seats because the company's policy states that men cannot
sit next to unaccompanied minors.

"She said it was the policy and I said, 'Well, that's pretty sexist and
discriminatory. You can't just say because I'm a man I can't sit there,' and
she just apologised and said that was the policy," Mr McGirr wrote in a blog
online.
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After a major
scholarly paper reviewing the damaging effects of physical
punishment of children over the last 20 years was
published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, February 2012
, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ( CBC ) had a website poll.
The question was "Should spanking be allowed under Canadian
law?". Over 6,000 votes were cast.

The comment by the Canadian Children's Rights Council became the
number 1 comment with a rather violent 2nd comment made by a mother
who struck her child. Her comment was assault under the
current Criminal Code of Canada, section 43, which is exactly why
the Canadian Children's Rights Council want's section 43 repealed.
Parent's don't know what is and is not allowed and the Supreme Court
of Canada spanking case judgement. It is problematic. We have
the survey results.
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'Right to spank' law called public health threat

Law permitting physical punishment at odds with public
health messages

CBC, February 6, 2012

The Criminal Code's justification for physical punishment of children
such as spanking should be removed, Canadian researchers say.

Monday's issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal includes a
paper reviewing how the understanding of the effects of physical
punishment of children has shifted dramatically in 20 years.

Children who have experienced physical punishment tend to be more
aggressive toward parents, siblings, peers and, later, spouses, and are
more likely to develop antisocial behaviour, said Joan Durrant, of the
department of family social sciences at the University of Manitoba and
Ron Ensom of Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa.

Physical punishment is also associated with a variety of mental
health problems, such as depression, anxiety and use of drugs and
alcohol.
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TORONTO — Ontario’s controversial Family Responsibility Office
has been overbilling 1,700 parents, mostly fathers, for as long
as 13 years, the province admitted Friday.

The 1,700 parents were overbilled by an average $75 each month,
after the agency wrongly applied a cost of living adjustment
that was eliminated in 1997.

Those who were overpaid will not be forced to give the money
back.

Instead, taxpayers will foot the $5.3 million bill for the
agency’s mistake.

“This error’s been found and it’s being corrected,” said Liberal
cabinet minister John Milloy. “We’re going to be reaching out to
those individuals (who were overbilled) and talking to them
about their situation, formally alerting them.”

The Family Responsibility Office, or FRO, is responsible for
ensuring court-ordered child support payments are made. More
than 97 per cent of all payers overseen by the office are male.

Milloy said the agency discovered the problem at some point in
2011. No one will be fired for the mistakes, he added.

“I see this as something very serious,” he said in an interview.
“I’m not trying to minimize it, but … there’s been lots of
action taken to reform FRO, to update computer systems, to
update customer relations and it’s on a much firmer footing.”

The billing mistake is only the latest controversy to engulf
FRO.
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Boys raised by traditional families 'do better at school'

Boys raised in traditional families are more likely to perform well at
school and avoid suspension than those brought up by single mothers, it
has emerged.

The Telegraph, UK, By Graeme Paton, Education Editor, 03 January 2012

Boys brought up by single mothers are more likely to struggle, according
to the report by the University of Chicago.

In a major study, researchers said family structures had a much more
significant effect on boys’ early education than school type or even the
gender of teachers.

It found that boys were much more likely to misbehave, be excluded from
school and go on to achieve low grades after rebelling against
“emotionally distant” parents.

The pattern is particularly marked in single-parent families where
mothers “invest disproportionately less in their sons or feel less warm
toward them” than daughters.

The disclosure comes amid continuing concern over the gender gap at the
heart of the education system.
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Canada's "Child Day" November 20th

a NON-Event

The Child Day Act was passed by the Parliament of Canada in 1993 yet most Canadians don't know anything about it.

Most public schools don't even have it on their school calendars.... talk about a human rights violation.

Politicians do next to nothing with the public other than exhaust some hot air in provincial/territorial legislative assemblies.
Read about Canada's Child Day
click here

It has been exactly two years since the world-renowned sports
organization Right to Play turned their attention to help boost the
confidence of impoverished native children.

The dream of teaching northern First Nations kids how to skate and
play Canada’s beloved game came from now Economic Development Minister
Brad Duguid, a Scarborough hockey dad.

A few years back Duguid served as provincial aboriginal affairs
minister. While touring fly-in communities in the north, he noticed the
ramshackle state of some reserve arenas and how the kids didn’t have
equipment to get on the ice.

Enter Right to Play, a program that sends Olympic and professional
athletes to war-torn countries to promote life skills through sports.
This is the organization’s first foray into a Canadian province.

What started off as a two community pilot project at both Sandy Lake
and Moose Cree First Nations has grown into a leadership program for
1,000 children in 39 First Nations, the provincial government announced
on Thursday.
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Ontario's privacy commissioner gave a thumbs up to McAfee on Tuesday
as the company unveiled Internet security software for families. Why
protecting your kids online is protecting yourself

McAfee Inc. is taking online identity, relationship and privacy protection to the next
level by focusing on youth, according Ross Allen, Canadian General
Manager for McAfee.

Allen was on site at the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario in Toronto on
Tuesday for the unveiling of McAfee's new Internet security software for
families.

Many threats now come through our children visiting legitimate
Internet sites which cybercriminals have hacked into, he said.

The company is also planning to direct more attention to whitelists.
We are used to trying to blacklist and keep the bad guys out. We are
going to change that and say, Here's the good guys, said Allen.

McAfee Family Protection allows parents to specify time parameters
for Internet use, including the amount of time their children spend
online as well as what time of day they are allowed to access the
Internet.

The single most important factor in determining how at-risk kids are
is the amount of time they are online too much time means too much
time to get into trouble, said Parry Aftab, family Internet safety
advisor to McAfee and chairman of the McAfee Consumer Advisory Board.
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The Globe and Mail ( Canada's largest national daily newspaper ), 20 May 2009,

Family courts are not supposed to reward abusive parents, and punish
parents who play by the rules. They are not supposed to allow an abusive
parent to nullify the responsible parent's role in a child's life. But
that is exactly what an Ontario court has done in a case of parental
alienation. It has, in effect, disposed of the child's father, perhaps
permanently.

Tasnim Elwan has been given permission to take her nine-year-old girl
from Canada to Saudi Arabia, where she will have "a seven-bedroom home
with two nannies," thanks to Ms. Elwan's wealthy new spouse. The
nine-year-old hates her father because he abandoned her - or so she
thinks. When he managed, with the RCMP's help, to trace her to Saudi
Arabia after her mother in effect kidnapped her, and made his way to
that country for 10 days, he was permitted just 15 minutes with her.
Some abandonment. And now he is to be allowed one telephone call a
month, which the judge doesn't expect Ms. Elwan will allow, anyway.

Ms. Elwan makes no secret of her disgust with her former spouse,
Ayman Al-Taher, a chaplain at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. She calls
him a mentally disturbed supporter of Hamas and al-Qaeda. If those
accusations were true, asked Mr. Justice Leonard Ricchetti, why then did
she agree, in a formal, court- approved settlement, to allow him any
access to their daughter? And why, he asked, make that settlement if she
never intended to comply with its terms? (She was found in contempt of
court for taking her child to Saudi Arabia.)
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Alienation cases have been receiving a great deal of public and
professional attention in the past few months in Canada. As with so many
issues in family law, there are two competing, gendered narratives
offered to explain these cases. Men's rights activists claim that
mothers alienate children from their fathers as a way of seeking revenge
for separation, and argue that judges are gender-biased against fathers
in these cases. Feminists tend to dismiss alienation as a fabrication of
abusive fathers who are trying to force contact with children who are
frightened of them and to control the lives of their abused former
partners. While there is some validity to both of these narratives, each
also has significant mythical elements. The reality of these cases is
often highly complex, with both fathers and mothers bearing significant
responsibility for the situation.

Two of the many findings are:

Mothers are twice as likely as fathers to
alienate children from the other parent, but this reflects the fact that
mothers are more likely to have custody or primary care of their
children; in only 2 out of 89 cases was a parent with only access able
to alienate a child from the other parent.

Fathers made more than three
times as many unsubstantiated claims of parental alienation as mothers,
but this too reflects the fact that claims of alienation (substantiated
and unsubstantiated) are usually made by access parents, who are usually
fathers.

Study says such cases should be moved out of court system, handled by
individual judges

The Globe and Mail, by KIRK MAKIN, JUSTICE REPORTER, May 13, 2009

An escalation in parental alienation allegations is draining valuable
courtroom resources, a major study of 145 alienation cases between
1989-2008 concludes.

"Access problems and alienation cases - especially those which are
more severe - take up a disproportionate amount of judicial time and
energy," said the study, conducted by Queen's University law professor
Nicholas Bala, a respected family law expert.

"One can ask whether the courts should even be trying to
deal with these very challenging cases."
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MONTREAL - A Montreal father is still waiting for a "miracle" reunion
with his 10-year-old daughter who resurfaced last month in Vancouver,
more than two years after she vanished.

Transit police found Ashley
Gonis after she ran away from her mother's Vancouver-area home and
called 911 from a commuter train station several kilometres away.

It's
now been over a month since she turned up, but her father Frank, who has
sole custody, said Tuesday he still isn't allowed to speak to her.

Instead, Ashley's mother, who Quebec police allege abducted the child,
is preparing to restart the family custody fight on a new battlefield -
a British Columbia court.

Gonis, who had packed his daughter's teddy
bears, clothes and drawings into boxes because it was too painful to
look at them while she was missing, described her reappearance as a
"miracle." His jubilation, however, has since eroded.

"(It's like)
there's a nightmare, you wake up and then the nightmare comes back - and
now here we go, Round 2," he said.

Parental Alienation Conference This weekend - Canadian
Children's Rights Council President Criticizes Government of Ontario
for not sending anyone to the conference.

March 26, 2009

The president of the Canadian Children's Rights Council, Grant Wilson, very publicly, criticized the Government of Ontario on Monday, March 23rd, 2009 in his speech to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Standing Committee on Social Policy.

He complained that the province had not registered anyone
from the Government of Ontario ministries to attend the
March 27th-29th international conference being held in
Toronto, Ontario regarding Parental Alienation in family law
disputes.

The conference, the Canadian conference on Parental
Alienation, will have speakers from around the
world from both the legal and mental heath professions to
discuss this important child abuse issue.

On Thursday, Mr. Wilson stated " Parental Alienation is a
serious, terrible form of child abuse and with a 40%
divorce rate, children need to be protected from parents who
alienate them from their other parent. "

Governments fund the enforcement of child financial support but
not court ordered parenting time.

"For example, all Ontario parents, no matter what their income, have the
Government of Ontario agency, The Family Responsibility
Office, to enforce child financial support orders but the
government refuses to protect children from this form of
child abuse and to enforce parenting time schedules ordered
by family law courts. There are few mental health professionals
that specialize in this form of child abuse and the
government health insurance plan doesn't even cover some of
those costs."

In 1998, The Special Joint Committee on Custody and
Access, a committee comprised of MPs and Senators held hearings across Canada and heard from over 500 witnesses, an equal number of men and women.
Substantial information was provided by mental health
professionals regarding Parental Alienation.

The recommendations made by the Special Joint Committee have
largely been ignored and children and their parents suffer.

Gender bias evident in parental alienation cases

Mothers are more likely to be the parent behind children's estrangement, yet fathers more often ordered into counselling, study finds

The Globe and Mail, Canada's largest national newspaper, by KIRK MAKIN, Justice Reporter, Saturday, March 28, 2009

JUSTICE REPORTER A study of alienated
children has found that mothers were significantly
more likely to be the parent who emotionally
poisoned their children than were fathers.

Toronto family lawyer Gene Colman told a Toronto symposium yesterday that of 74
court rulings that found parental alienation since
1987, the mother was the alienator in 50 cases. The
father was the alienating parent in 24.

"I'm not trying to dump on moms," Mr. Colman
told about 150 psychologists, family lawyers, mediators and activist
parents. "I'm just saying, that is what the data reveal."

In parental alienation syndrome, an estranged parent systematically brainwashes a child into hating the
other parent. The profile of the syndrome escalated over the past
year, after three Ontario judges ordered that children be removed
from an alienating parent and taken to U.S. clinics for
deprogramming therapy.

Mr. Colman said that alienating fathers were
twice as likely to be ordered to undergo counselling as were mothers
in alienation cases - a finding that raises serious questions about
whether judges are exhibiting gender biases.
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FATHERS who want custody of their children
will have more success in the Family Court than by trying to strike a
deal with their ex-partners.

The Australian, Australia's national daily newspaper, By Michael Pelly, March 24, 2009

In a break with conventional wisdom, fathers are twice as likely to
get majority custody of their children if they take their fight to the
court.

A Family Court review shows fathers were given majority custody in 17
per cent of litigated cases, but only in 8 per cent of those settled by
consent, or early agreement, with the mothers.

The review of the shared parental responsibility reforms of 2006
shows that in 14 per cent of litigated cases, the father received
between 30 and 45 per cent of custody. This figure fell to 11 per cent
for early agreements.

The review shows that, if fathers are given less than 30 per cent
custody, abuse and violence are the main reasons. And about one in 12
court cases end with an order that a child should spend time with their
grandparents.

The reforms, passed by the Howard government, introduced a rebuttable
presumption of "equal time" parenting and were aimed at promoting
co-operation over conflict.
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Toronto -- The scope of the courts' reach into family affairs has
long been contentious, but a recent trend in Canada's legal system has
brought a new controversy that has some onlookers praising judges and
others condemning them for accepting what they call "voodoo science."

More than ever before, Canada's judges are recognizing that some
children of divorced and warring parents are not simply living an
unfortunate predicament, but rather are victims of child abuse and
suffering from Parental Alienation Syndrome.
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The National Post, Saskatoon StarPhoenix, By Lori Coolican, March 26, 2009

SASKATOON A Saskatchewan judge slammed the Norwegian government
last month for providing new passports to help a woman flee Canada with
two children in the midst of a nasty, transatlantic custody battle.

The Norwegian government played a pivotal role in the breach of
orders of this court. (They) could not have left Canada without its
assistance, Court of Queens Bench Justice Geoff Dufour remarked in a
Feb. 19 written decision obtained recently by the Saskatoon StarPhoenix.
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Moms club to Surrey dad: we 'hate to discriminate, but...'

Rick Kaselj and his Cole are looking for a new place to meet other
parents and children. Photo by Brian Howell.

Father and son get boot

Surrey Now, Surrey, BC, by Ted Colley, Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Sorry, no dads.

That's the message a Clayton Hills father got when he tried to join
the activities of the Cloverdale Mommy & Me Meetup group.

Rick Kaselj is a registered kinesiologist and father of Cole, his
infant son. A relative newcomer to Surrey, Kaselj was looking for
opportunities to meet people in his neighbourhood when he discovered the
group online.

"My wife and I just had our first child. She works days and I work
evenings, so I'm a part-time stay-at-home dad. I found this group online
two or three months ago and signed up."
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Owen Sound Sun Times newspaper had news story about local MP Larry Miller writing judge to influence international child abduction case in mid August but didn't publish anything about it. WHY?

The following email was sent to Scott Dunn of the Owen Sound Sun Times newspaper on October 10, 2008
by Grant Wilson, president of the Canadian Children's Rights
Council.

Published Friday, October 10th, 2008 at 6pm.

Scott Dunn

Owen Sound Sun Times

290 9th Street East

Owen Sound, ON N4K 5P2

Dear Scott,

I called you a few minutes ago. You didn't wish to comment for
publication on our website. I asked you if you knew the date that the child abductor, Jessica Fleguel, was going back to
court in Owen Sound. You refused to answer. I stated how much
assistance we provided to you with information about the
unfair lobbying of the judge by Larry Miller MP and provided you with a copy of the letter he wrote to the judge. You
previously stated to me that you were unable to find the letter in the court file when you attended at the Owen Sound Court to
examine the court files. You have never published the information that you had about Larry Miller MP writing the
judge until now, immediately before the election although you had the information in our conversations and emails of
August 15-18th. We have received calls from concerned citizens of the Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound electoral district in
the last few days including today. From your reaction to my phone call today, you are apparently going to write about
Larry Miller MP and his correspondence to the judge presiding on this case now nearly 2 months after you had
absolute proof of what he did. Why? You refused comment.

In addition, the Owen Sound Sun Times was emailed on the
October 6th, 2008 but made no reply by email or telephone.

The actual letter of Larry Miller MP written to the judge has been on this website with a link from the front webpage on this website since August 18th or shortly thereafter.

On Friday, October 3rd, 2008, Jessica Fleguel, a child abductor who now resides in Owen Sound, Ontario, had her second day in court when her appeal was heard by the Court of Appeal for Ontario.

The child abductor lost in the Superior Court of Justice in Owen Sound, Ontario,
on May 15th, 20. She has stalled the "expedited" nature of such cases of international child abduction
for 10 months. The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of
International Child Abduction requires Canada to have the police find the
abductor and all court proceedings to be completed and the child returned
within 6 weeks.

Ms. Fleguel was represented at the Court of Appeal for Ontario by one of Canada's most prominent lawyers, Martha McCarthy and 2 associate lawyers from the law firm of Martha McCarthy & Company. Ms. McCarthy was the Ontario Bar Association's "Family Lawyer of the Year 2007" because she won the Supreme Court of Canada case giving gays and lesbians the right to marry. She also handled the 1st lesbian divorce.

One of the 3 judges that heard the appeal asked for the amount of legal fees charged by Ms. Fleguel's
lawyers, all 3 of them, which was stated as $25,000. They
considered awarding costs to the father of the same amount because
that is what Ms. Fleguel's lawyer's were seeking had they been
successful. In the end the judges agreed to only $10,000. She
got lucky.

Child abduction is clearly child abuse but the local media don't
see it that way. The Owen Sound Sun Times has written about the case
as if it were a family law dispute in many ways. Staff Writer Scott
Dunn even asked the public to donate to pay the child
abductor's legal fees. They provided the banking information for
anyone to donate to cover the child abductor's legal fees.

Although it was known to Scott Dunn of the Owen Sound Sun Times
that the mother had given birth to another child fathered by the
same Australian father, he never wrote the story about this father that had never even seen his own newborn son or held his
new baby boy in his arms because the mother took off to Canada
before the child was born.

The father reported to the Canadian Children's Rights Council
that at no time did the mother consult the father with regards to
naming their child and she refused to provide a copy of the
"Statement of Live Birth" form used to register a birth. The father
reported that the mother wanted to name their children "using Star
Wars movie character names or derivatives of same.

The
"Baby-Naming" decision of the Supreme Court of Canada requires
that both parent's names be used unless the parents both agree
otherwise. The father now has to fight that legal battle to even get
on the birth registration. Their child is entitled to dual
Australian/Canadian citizenship which is, in the opinion of the
Canadian Children's Rights Council ,a major advantage throughout a
person's life in a growing world economy. It also assists a child to
travel freely to visit relatives in both countries.

The father has not spoken to the media other than the Canadian
Children's Rights Council accept when he declined comment
to Scott Dunn of the Owen Sound Sun Times on October 10th, 2008.
The child abductor has been protesting on the streets of small
town Owen Sound and in front of the courthouse and has been in the
media locally trying to get public sympathy and even ask people to
donate to pay for the court costs and her legal bill so far which
total $25,000. Why any member of the public would donate to
help a child abductor is beyond us. We wonder why Scott
Dunn, the reporter from the Owen Sound Sun Times newspaper would
even invite people to pay the legal costs of the child abductor. He
provided information in his article of October 10 ( 10:30 pm
website, October 11 in print) on the bank and account number
to which people may contribute to pay the legal costs of the child
abductor mother.

International Child abduction Case - Interference by MP Larry Miller

Federal Member of Parliament for Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound, Larry
Miller has caused an international embarrassment. His is a member of
the Conservative Party of Canada, the ruling political party that forms the Government of Canada and which appoints federal judges sitting on the bench of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario, Canada's most populous province.

Larry Miller wrote the judge presiding over the case to lobby for his new
constituent, the mother who abducted her child to Canada.
More.. To read
his letter
click here

The father has reported to the Canadian Children's Rights Council
that he is suing Larry Miller for interfering with the case and
claims that justice was delayed and lawyer's fees were paid as a
result of Larry Miller's actions. The father also states that his
lawyer is seeking legal action against Larry Miller by Legal Aid
Ontario which paid legal fees at part of the lawyer's usual rate of
pay. The father is seeking punitive damages as well for Larry
Miller's actions to prevent Members of Parliament from abusing their
power and lobbying judges on any court cases.

Australian father successful in international child abduction case heard by Superior Court of Justice in Owen Sound, Ontario also wins appeal heard by the Court of Appeal for Ontario.

This international child abduction case heard in Owen
Sound by Justice Robert Thompson on May 15th, 2008 which resulted in his written decision of June 27th, 2008 was appealed to the Court of Appeal for Ontario.
Justice Thompson ruled that the child was abducted from his habitual residence in Australia and that the mother had to return the child to Australia.

The appeal was heard on Friday, October 3rd, 2008. The judges' written decision is forth coming. The 3 judges hearing the appeal dismissed the appeal and the father won. The court therefore agreed that the child had been abducted by the mother, Jessica Fleguel,
and sent the case back to the Superior Court of Justice in Owen Sound,
Ontario. for implementation of the deportation order to reunited the
child with his father.
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The Member of the Parliament of Canada for Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound,
Larry Miller MP wrote a letter to lobby Justice Robert M. Thompson,
the presiding judge on an international child abduction case.

The hearing was a case regarding the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction regarding a mother
living habitually in Australia who abducted her child to Canada. As is the
procedure under Hague, the Australian Government requested that
the Canadian federal government locate the child and return the child to
Australia. Due process includes a hearing in which the judge
orders the child back to the parent from which the child was abducted in
the other country. That allows both parents to attend at the family
court in that country to present their family law case.

On May 29th, 2008, Larry Miller MP wrote Justice Robert Thompson, the presiding judge on this case, regarding the case and expressed his opinion that the correct judgement would be to allow the child abducting mother to keep the child in Canada. He cited letters from members of the woman's family, his constituents, as the sole evidence and his justification for severing the child's relationship with the Australian father. The case being heard wasn't even a family law case. It was a Hague Convention case about child abduction.

For the complete details and to view a copy of the letter
Larry Miller wrote to the judge click here

A pilot program led by Lester B. Pearson School Board (LBPSB)
in Quebec will provide HP 2133 Mini-Note notebook PCs to
four-year-old students this fall. The Kindergarten for
Four-Year-Olds program will distribute 100 laptops among
five Montreal-area schools and the International Language
Centre in Pointe-Claire.

According Bob Mills, director general of LBPSB, the
program will enhance learning opportunities by incorporating
technology as part of a total education package. Research
has show that the use of technology by three- and
four-year-olds develops gain in intelligence, non-verbal
skills, structural knowledge such as long-term memory and
manual dexterity, he said.
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The practice of renting a womb and getting a child is like
outsourcing pregnancy. This trade's business volume is estimated to be
around $ 500 million and the numbers of cases of surrogacy are believed
to be increasing at galloping rate in India.

MeriNews, By Joseph Gathia, June 23, 2008

India - THE MINISTRY of Women and Child Development is examining the
issue of surrogate motherhood in India for bringing up a comprehensive
legislation. But surrogate motherhood - as an arrangement, in which a
woman carries and bears a child for another person or persons, but takes
no ownership of the child born - has also raised moral, ethical, social
and legal questions about both the woman and the commissioned baby.

To understand the issues involved, let us see the case of Surekha.
She is seven-months pregnant like any other expecting mothers, except
that the child she is carrying isnt her own. When Surekha gives birth
to this child in India, the newborn will be immediately be handed over
to its biological parents, Non Resident Indians (NRIs) who live in
Canada and who have been unable to bear a child on their own. In return
for renting her womb, Surekha will be paid one lakh rupees.

This practice of renting a womb and getting a child is like
outsourcing pregnancy. The business volume of this trade is estimated to
be around $ 500 million and the numbers of cases of surrogacy are
believed to be increasing at galloping rate.
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MONTREAL A Quebec man who has failed to have his name removed from
the birth certificate of a young girl he found out was not his
biological daughter wants to argue his case before the Supreme Court of
Canada.

The businessman has already struck out in Quebec Superior Court and
in the Quebec Court of Appeal.

Both courts ruled that paternity is ironclad if a man's name is on
the birth certificate, if that status is not contested within a year of
the child's birth and if other factors, including the same family name,
indicate obvious bonds between the child and the parents.

The courts ruled there is little room for interpretation, but the
man's lawyer disagreed with both rulings.
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When Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears ran amok, the
public blamed their mothers. Their fathers - Lohan's had served time in
jail and had addiction problems - escaped rebuke entirely.

Now an Australian study provides some evidence that bad mothering has
a worse effect on children than bad fathering.

It shows that mothers who exhibit "toxic" behaviours - from being
cold and indifferent to being abusive, manipulative or over-controlling
- are far more likely to warp their children's outlook on life than
fathers with similar behaviour.

Meltdown . . . Britney Spears shaves her head at the height of her
very public breakdown.

Wayne Warburton, a research fellow at Macquarie University's Children
and Families Research Centre, said: "Mothers have a really powerful
effect on the way their kids view the world and themselves, probably
because kids spend more time with their mothers, especially in the
crucial early years."

Dr Warburton asked 441 university students to fill out detailed
questionnaires on the parenting styles of their mothers and fathers, and
on their own patterns of thinking.
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The International Day of Disabled Persons -
December 3

The International Day of Disabled Persons, which is
held every year on 3 December, aims to promote an
understanding of disability issues and mobilise support
for the dignity, rights and well-being of persons with
disabilities. The 2007 theme was 'Decent work for
persons with disabilities.'

Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities - the first major human rights treaty of
the 21st century

This year's International Day of Disabled Persons had
special significance as a new international
Convention for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,
which was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2006,
has become the fastest ever signed Convention, with 118
signatures so far.

Two countries - Spain and South Africa - took the
opportunity of the International Day to ratify the new
Convention; Bangladesh also ratified last week.

However, the Convention has yet to come into force as
only 10 countries Bangladesh, Croatia, Cuba, Gabon,
Hungary, India, Jamaica, Panama, South Africa and Spain
- out of a required 20 have ratified the Convention.

Children with disabilities

Some 150-200 million out of two billion children
worldwide - or ten per cent of children - live with
disabilities. Children with disabilities experience
widespread violations of their rights, many of which are
common to those faced by adults poverty, social
exclusion, lack of accessible environments, violence.

They face abuses including abandonment as babies,
institutionalisation, exclusion from education, lack of
birth registration, lack of respect for their evolving
capacities, inappropriate child protection systems.
Estimates indicate that over 90 per cent of all children
with disabilities are unlikely to receive any formal
education.

Children and the new Convention

The new Convention marks a shift from seeing children
with disabilities as objects of charity, and addressing
their 'special needs' - the approach set out in Article
23 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child - to
subjects of rights.

All the Articles in the text apply to children with
disabilities; in addition, Article 7 sets out specific
obligations to ensure children with disabilities enjoy
of all human rights and fundamental freedoms on an equal
basis with other children, to ensure that the best
interests of the child is a primary consideration, and
to provide disability and age appropriate assistance to
ensure that children with disabilities are able to
realise the right to their express views on all matters
of concern to them and have them taken seriously in
accordance with age and maturity.

Read more in Gerison Lansdown's paper: The New
Disability Convention and the Protection of Children.

Proposed change to Manitoba child protection law a
witch hunt at best.

Priority should be stopping the abuse of over 50,000
children in Manitoba that suffer from Parental
Alienation Syndrome

Canadian Children's Rights Council website shut down
by false allegations of child pornography
More..

On November 28, 2007 the governing party of the
province of Manitoba introduced the Child and Family
Services Amendment Act which calls for jailing or fining
anyone who knows about child pornography but doesn't
report it to authorities.

Manitoba law already has penalties for anyone not
reporting child abuse. The information stated in the
media is that no person has ever been charged with
failing to provide information about child abuse to
authorities and that the Minister introducing the
legislation doesn't anticipate that arrests or fined
will result because of the inclusion of child sexual
exploitation in the amended law. ....Then why
waste time on such a meaningless amendment?

We are sure that some perverted person will find some
innocent picture of a baby in a bathtub sexual. The
media has reported that no person in Manitoba has ever
been charged with not reporting child abuse that they
reasonably believe occurred or witnessed but we know
that hundreds of parents have reported to police that
their ex-spouses who have violated parenting time
orders made by family law courts or as part of
separation agreements made between 2 parents in family
law cases. Such violations are child abuse. Often they
involve parental alienation which is also child abuse.

Comments in the media attributed to the Minister
stated that we should do everything possible to stop
child pornography no matter what it take to save just 1
child from sexual exploitation. This is dangerous
to parents that take innocent non-sexual pictures that
some pervert may see as sexual. A picture of baby not
wearing a diaper while walking on a beach could result
an investigation of the family and a stigma that can
ruin their lives.

It is our position at the Canadian Children's Rights
Council that people will report child abuse, in all its
forms, including child porn without threats that if they
don't, they will go to jail or at least spend thousands
of dollars on defence lawyers and face the stigma
associated with such charges.

It is our position that if the Government of Manitoba
wants to stop child abuse en masse, they should enforce
parenting time orders made by their own family law
courts and provide much need mental health services
specifically to help children that are victims of
parental alienation syndrome in family law cases.

The Internet is international and so is the
problem of child porn and the child sex trade

The International Criminal Police Organization
INTERPOL, an agency of the United Nations, is the
logical police service that should be battling
international child porn in conjunction with the sex
tourism business. They should report widely on offences
being committed in all countries that use disobey their
own laws against child sex workers/slaves while
hotels and others profit from the child sex tourism
business.

Each of INTERPOLs member countries maintains a
National Central Bureau (NCB) staffed by police
officers. In Canada, it is INTERPOL Ottawa run by the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP), Canada's national
Police service.

INTERPOL's world head office is located in France and
is staffed by police officers from around the world. Its
staff is relatively small. In our opinion, it should be
quadruple its size and really fulfill the need for a
truly international police force.

If you really want to stop child porn on the
Internet, suggest to your Member of the Parliament of
Canada that you want your tax dollars spent on more
International police including an expanded role for
INTERPOL both in Canada and around the world.

Child Porn - An international issue. The Internet
knows no national boundaries. Many Countries don't even
have child porn laws. Let's go after them.

Read about how other countries that feed child porn
into Canada over the Internet don't even have
their own criminal laws and how they fail to protect
their own children while their citizens such as hotel
owners make money in the sex tourism trade.
More..

The damage to families when false allegations
are made.

In Toronto, Ontario, a few years ago, a medical
doctor was accused of being a child pornographer. His
medical practice was ruined. He was found not guilty in
criminal court but committed suicide because of the
stress. His reputation was ruined and there was no
way to retract the damage done to him by the media
coverage made when he was charged. He had subscribed to
adult pornography on the internet and his credit card
had been charged. The same company providing the adult
porn had been providing child porn to others and used
the same company to charge credit cards.

Canada's National "Child Day" - November 20th

Canada's national "Child Day" is held November 20th each year as
enacted in Bill C-371, otherwise known as the Child
Day Act, by the Parliament of Canada in 1993.

It commemorates the United Nations adoption of two
landmark documents concerned with the human rights of
all children and youths.

Rapport final duComité
Sénatorial permanent
des Droits de la personne

avril 2007

Parents win right to grow babies for 'spare parts'

PARENTS of sick children in Britain will be allowed
to use IVF to create "spare-part babies" under
controversial laws published yesterday.

The legislation will dramatically relax rules on IVF
clinics creating "saviour siblings" who can help cure
their older brothers and sisters of medical conditions
such as leukemia.
More..

Canadian Governments failing native children, report
says

14 August 2007 - Hundreds of aboriginal children with
severe medical problems in Canada are being moved to
institutions in big cities because health authorities
cannot agree on who should pay for their care, according
to a new report.

Yet if these children lived 'off-reserve' (not on
indigenous land), they would virtually be guaranteed the
care they need at home, according to the latest edition
of the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

"That is discrimination, pure and simple," Noni
MacDonald, a professor of paediatrics and a senior CMAJ
editor, said in an editorial.

Amir Attaran, the Canada Research Chair in Law,
Population Health and Global Development Policy, said
the practice is screamingly illegal, and a clear
violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
and of the United Nations Convention
on the Rights of the Child.

The editorial, co-written by the two academics, says
that the governments deserve to be sued for such a
failure.

The pair reject arguments that services for complex
medical needs, such as those of ventilator-dependent
children, cannot be provided on reserves because
communities are too remote.

"Geography is no excuse for the pusillanimous,
inequitable distribution of wealth, such that advanced
care exists only in the south and first nations
children, parents and communities endure psychological
and cultural stress to access it, " Dr. MacDonald and
Dr. Attaran wrote.

Cindy Blackstock, executive director of the First
Nations Child and Family Caring Society, said that in
fact native children are being discriminated against
both in remote communities and reserves located close to
big cities.

Attempt to rationalise

"This is an attempt to rationalise pretty blatant
discrimination," she said.

At the root of the problem is an
age-old dispute about who pays for the medical care of Indian, Inuit
and Métis people. Generally
speaking, care provided on reserves is paid by Health Canada (or
Indian Affairs, if it is a social service) and by the province
off-reserve.

But the situation gets complicated when someone
travels away for care and then wants to return to the community and
receive continuing care.

The situation came to a head a few
years back with the tragic case of a boy named Jordan from the
Norway House Cree Nation in northern Manitoba.

Jordan whose family asked that his last name not be published to protect their
privacy was born in 1999 with a severe neuromuscular disorder.
He was referred for care in Winnipeg, where he became
wheelchair-bound and ventilator-dependent. But his health stabilised
and he was discharged in 2001.

He was placed in a specialised home near his home reserve but Ottawa and Winnipeg could not agree
on who would pay.

For two years, bureaucrats warred over the
most mundane details of Jordan's care, right down to who would pay
for a showerhead required for a wheelchair-accessible shower.

Jordan ended up back in a Winnipeg hospital where he died at age of
four.

Patient's interests second

"Jordan's interests fell a distant second;
intergovernmental squabbling over the duty to pay came first," Dr.
MacDonald and Dr. Attaran write in their editorial.

"Many of the services Jordan needed would be paid for
without question for a white Manitoban, or off-reserve aboriginal.
It was Jordan's living on-reserve that caused the bureaucracy to
choke."

The boy's case became a cause clbre
in social welfare and child health circles. The term
"Jordan's principle" was coined the principle being that the needs
of a child should supersede bickering over who pays the bills.

Senate committee chastises Canada for its
treatment of aboriginal children

OTTAWA - Canada's treatment of its aboriginal
children is "a national total disgrace," Senator
Romeo Dallaire said Thursday as a Senate committee
issued a report on the government's failure to
comply with an international treaty on children's
rights.

"They're living in the Third World," said
Dallaire, a retired general who led a UN mission
during the genocide in Rwanda in the mid-1990s. "You
wonder if you're a colonial white man in black
Africa," he said, recalling testimony that while
Canada ranked among the top-five countries on a UN
human development index, Canada's aboriginal
population lagged in 78th place.
More..

NETHERLANDS: Seventeenth European State to ban
corporal punishment by parents

On 6 March 2007, a new law prohibiting all corporal
punishment by parents and carers was passed in the
Senate. The law amends the provisions in the Civil Code
on parental authority so that article 1:247 now states
(unofficial translation):

(1) Parental authority includes the duty and the
right of the parent to care for and raise his or her
minor child. (2) Caring for and raising ones child
includes the care and the responsibility for the
emotional and physical wellbeing of the child and for
his or her safety as well as for the promotion of the
development of his or her personality. In the care and
upbringing of the child the parents will not use
emotional or physical violence or any other humiliating
treatment. More..

Article 1:248 of the Code applies article 1:247 to all
other persons acting in loco parentis.

The Cabinet agreed to proceed with prohibition in
February 2005, following a government-commissioned study
on the experiences of abolition in other European
countries. Department of Justice press releases at the
time the Bill to contribute to the prevention of
emotional and physical abuse of children or any other
humiliating treatment of children in care and upbringing
was introduced to the Cabinet stressed that the primary
purpose of the new law is to set a standard. It
emphasised that the law would bring the Netherlands into
compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the
Child and article 17 of the European Social Charter, and
address the recommendations made to the Netherlands
government by the Committee on the Rights of the Child
and the European Committee of Social Rights.

Now that the law has been passed, a government
Communication Plan to inform parents and the general
public about the ban is being prepared. The law is
expected to come into force by the summer.

At least 16 countries in Europe have enacted bans on
corporal punishment by parents and all other carers:
Sweden (1979); Finland (1983); Norway (1987); Austria
(1989); Cyprus (1994); Denmark (1997); Latvia (1998);
Croatia (1999); Germany (2000); Bulgaria (2000), Iceland
(2003); Romania (2004); Ukraine (2004), Hungary (2004),
Greece (2006); Netherlands (2007). In addition, a
Supreme Court judgment in Italy (1996) declared all
corporal punishment to be unlawful, but this has not yet
been confirmed in legislation. At least six more states
have committed themselves to full law reform in the near
future: Lithuania, Luxembourg, Portugal, Slovakia,
Slovenia, Spain.

The pace of reform is gathering momentum in light of the
UN Secretary Generals Study on Violence against
Children, which recommended in its final report
prohibition in law of all corporal punishment of
children by 2009. Many more governments across the world
have committed themselves to full prohibition, including
at least a further six in Europe.

UK: Doctors call for debate on mercy killing of
disabled babies

BBC - 6 November 2006

UK - Doctors are calling for a debate over proposals
for the "mercy killing" of severely disabled babies. The
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists wants
a discussion over whether "deliberate intervention" to
cause death should be legalised. Withdrawing treatment
is already permitted in some cases.

The college said it was not necessarily in favour of the move, but felt it
should be debated. However, some are angry it has even been suggested. Simone Aspis, of the British Council of Disabled People,
said: "We really do not know how long babies and young people will live for. "We should not deny people the opportunity to live for as
long as they are able to."

And Matthew O'Gorman, a spokesman for the Life charity, said it was "extremely worrying". "There is a
huge difference between withdrawing invasive treatment that has become futile, and taking action to intentionally end a child's life
because treatment is considered to be too expensive or time-consuming."

The college made its comments in a submission to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, which is carrying out an
inquiry into the viability of life. Nuffield will publish its report on critical care decisions in foetal and neonatal medicine next
week.

A working party has been consulting on the issue on the back of improvements in medical technology which means very
premature and ill babies can survive, although some with severe disabilities.

The college said: "We would like the working party to think more radically about non-resuscitation, withdrawal of
treatment decisions... and active euthanasia, as they are ways of
widening the management options available to the sickest of
newborns."

Maggie Blott, a member of the college, said these
were "very difficult decisions" that would be taken over days, weeks
and even months in consultation with the parents. She added it was a
debate that needed to happen.

Doctors have mixed views over the suggestions.

John Wyatt, professor of neonatal paediatrics at University College Hospital London, said: "It changes the nature
of medicine... into some kind of social engineering."

But John Harris, professor of bioethics at the University of Manchester, said
it was not a question of whether or not these decisions were taken -
as they already were through withdrawing treatment - but how to take
them in the most humane way.

Dalton McGuinty, Premiere of Ontario, fails the
children of Ontario.

Dalton McGuinty plays cheap politics involving crying mothers in front of
legislature - Will "Kevin and Jared's Law", a law
calling for mandatory coroner's inquests into the deaths
of a child killed by his or her parent, ever become law?

Liberal and Conservative governments of Ontario have
failed to enforce protection of children from
prostitution in the Rescuing Children from Sexual
Exploitation Act, 2002

This bill fights child prostitution by allowing
police to seize underage hookers -- i.e., hold them in
custody -- for up to 30 days, instead of the
normal practice, which generally sees them right back
out on the street after an arrest, with no hope of
getting free of their pimps and the seedy lure of street
life.

The idea is to protect these children by holding them
long enough to get them care and support -- it's about
giving them a chance to return to a normal life, not
about jailing or punishing them. (In case that's not
clear, it's called the
Rescuing Children from Sexual Exploitation Act, 2002.

YEARS OF LOBBYING

Other provinces, notably
Alberta, have had such a law for years, and it has
proven effective.
In Ontario, where we have an estimated 1,200 child
prostitutes, it took years of work and lobbying, but in
2002, the then-Conservative government endorsed and
passed the private member's bill originated by MPP Rick
Bartolucci, a Liberal.

The trouble is, it was never proclaimed -- not by the
Tories and not by the Liberals since they came to power,
even though it was the brainchild of one of their own.
Amazingly, some youth outreach groups oppose the law as
too "draconian"; -- because, hey, why shouldn't a
14-year-old have the right to sell her body for cash? A
14-year-old is obviously not mature enough to make such
a decision which is why the act was passed. But will it
become law or
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Overdue support to disabled just first step

Kudos to Sudbury community legal worker Marie Lalande
for setting in motion the action that led to Ontario
finally agreeing to pay $25 million in overdue support
to some 19,000 people with disabilities.

As reported by the Star's Rob Ferguson, cabinet approved
the payout last week in response to a blistering attack
by Ontario Ombudsman Andr Marin. Marin called it
"morally repugnant" that the province was taking an
average of eight months to process disability support
applications but would pay only four months of
retroactive benefits to those whose applications were
accepted.

The four-month cut-off was cancelled May 31, the day
Marin released his report, but the system was so
backlogged, there was no immediate relief.

The province is to be commended for acknowledging its
responsibility and moving quickly to correct an inequity
that has created so much unnecessary hardship. But as
Lalande and other advocates point out, this is by no
means the only flaw in the Ontario Disability Support
Program (ODSP).

With a surplus in its coffers, Queen's Park should move
to help people with disabilities rise above subsistence
levels. It would pay off big time and long term,
improving general health and helping them reach their
full potential.
More ..ODSP Action Coalition

VANCOUVER - Canada's largest study into the sexual exploitation of street
kids and runaways has shattered some myths about who the abusers might be
- with the most surprising finding being that many are women seeking sex
with young males.

"Some youth in each gender were exploited by women with more than three
out of four (79 per cent) sexually exploited males reporting exchanging
sex for money or goods with a female," said Elizabeth Saewyc, associate
professor of nursing at the University of British Columbia and principal
investigator for the study conducted by Vancouver's McCreary Centre Society.

A men's rights group has called for mandatory paternity testing
of all babies after government figures revealed almost 600 instances of
men compelled to financially support children they did not father.

Since changes to child support laws four years ago, there had been 586
cases of men successfully using DNA testing to show they were not biologically
related to children they had been financially supporting, the federal government
has revealed to The Australian.
More..

TV Show about Parental Alienation

The world of divorce is scary for any child. But when a divorce becomes
especially toxic, children can become the target of an unrelenting crusade
by one parent to destroy the child's relationship with the other. Experts
call it parental alienation.
More..

Baby Died from Herpes Transmitted by Rabbi
During Ritual Genital Mutilation

Baby Dies of Herpes in Ritual Circumcision By Orthodox Jews

ABC News, U.S.A., by Susan Donaldson James, March 12, 2012

New York City is investigating the death last September of a baby who
contracted herpes after a "ritual circumcision with oral suction," in an
ultra-Orthodox Jewish ceremony known in Hebrew as metzitzah b'peh.

The district attorney's office in Kings County Brooklyn is
investigating the death of the 2-week-old baby at Maimonides Hospital,
but would not disclose the name of the mohel or whether there would be a
prosecution.

The 5,000-year-old religious practice is seen primarily in
ultra-Orthodox and some orthodox communities and has caused an alarm
among city health officials. In 2003 and 2004, three babies, including a
set of twins, were infected with Type 1 herpes; the cases were linked to
circumcision, and one boy died.

The mohel who performed the procedures, Yitzchok Fischer, was later
banned from doing circumcisions, according to
The New York Times. It is not known if he was involved in this
recent death.

"It's certainly not something any of us recommend in the modern
infection-control era," said Dr. William Schaffner, chair of preventive
medicine at Vanderbilt University.

"This is a ritual of historic Abraham that's come down through the
ages, and now it has met modern science," he said. "It was never a good
idea, and there is a better way to do this." (The modern Jewish
community uses a sterile aspiration device to clean the wound in a
circumcision.)

In the 2004 death and the more recent one, a mohel infected the
penile wounds with Type 1 herpes I (HSV-1), which affects the mouth and
throat. It is different from Type 2 or genital herpes (HSV-2), which is
a sexually transmitted disease and can cause deadly infections when a
newborn passes through an infected birth canal.

Neonatal herpes is "almost always" a fatal infection, according to
Schaffner. "It's a bad virus. [Infants] have no immunity and so it's a
very serious illness. Now we have another death -- an unnecessary,
incredibly tragic death."
More..

Some experts say the extreme hatred some kids feel toward a parent in
a divorce is a mental illness

U.S. News & World Report
October 29, 2009

From an early age, Anne was taught by her mother to fear her father.
Behind his back, her mom warned that he was unpredictable and dangerous;
any time he'd invite her to do anything—a walk in the woods, a trip to
the art store—she would craft an excuse not to go. "I was under the
impression that he was crazy, that at any moment he could just pop and
do something violent to hurt me," says Anne, who prefers that only her
middle name be used to guard her family's privacy. Typical of a
phenomenon some mental-health experts now label "parental alienation,"
her view of him became so negative, she says, that her mother persuaded
her to lie during a custody hearing when the couple divorced. Then 14,
she told the judge that her dad was physically abusive. Was he? "No,"
she says. "But I was convinced that he would [be]." After her mother won
custody, Anne all but severed contact with her father for years.

If a growing faction of the mental-health community has its way,
Anne's experience will one day soon be an actual diagnosis. The concept
of parental alienation, which is highly controversial, is being
described as one in which children strongly attach to one parent and
reject the other in the false belief that he or she is bad or dangerous.
"It's heartbreaking," says William Bernet, a child and adolescent
psychiatrist and professor at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine,
"to have your 10-year-old suddenly, in a matter of weeks, go from loving
you and hiking with you...to saying you're a horrible, ugly person."
These aren't kids who simply prefer one parent over the other, he says.
That's normal. These kids doggedly resist contact with a parent,
sometimes permanently, out of an irrational hate or fear.
More..

Days after buying another woman Valentine's Day flowers, a Sydney father came home to find a trail of blood leading him to the bodies of his two young children lying next to their mother, a court has been told.

Australian Associated Press
Aug 24 2009

The woman had given the couple's three-year-old daughter and
four-year-old son rat poison and an unidentified pink liquid before
smothering them and killing them, court papers said.

She then tried to take her own life, the NSW Supreme Court was told.

Doctors agree the mother, from Canley Heights in Sydney's west, was
suffering from "major depression" when she poisoned her children on
February 19 last year.

She has pleaded not guilty to the two murders by reason of mental
illness.

As her judge-alone trial began, the mother's lawyer told Justice
Clifton Hoeben his client didn't think life was worth living after
learning about her husband's affair.
More..

Baby-faced Alfie, who is 13 but looks more like
eight, became a father four days ago when his girlfriend Chantelle
Steadman gave birth to 7lb 3oz Maisie Roxanne.

He told how he, at 12 years old, and Chantelle, 15, decided against an
abortion after discovering she was pregnant.
More..

Paternity FraudSpain
Supreme Court

Adulterous woman ordered to pay husband £177,000
in 'moral damages'

The Daily Mail, UK18th February 2009

An adulterous Spanish woman who conceived three children with her lover
has been ordered to pay £177,000 in 'moral damages' to her husband.

The cuckolded man had believed that the three children were his until
a DNA test eventually proved they were fathered by another man.

The husband, who along with the other man cannot be named for legal reasons
to protect the children's identities, suspected his second wife may
have been unfaithful in 2001. More..

The Men's Project"Men
of Courage"

1st Ontario Provincial Conference on Male Sexual Victimizations.

It was held March 17-18, 2008

Sheraton Centre Hotel
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The Men's Project, an Ottawa / Cornwall registered charitable service
provider with the assistance of a grant from the Ministry of the Attorney General, hosted
this conference.

About The Men's Project
From what was initially a volunteer run initiative, The Men's Project has
grown to become one of Canada's leading counselling and educational agencies
for men and their families, and in particular for all male survivors of
sexual abuse committed by males and females.

The Men's Project has witnessed incredible expansion of their funded services,
their
fee-for-service programs, and their training and consultation services.

Their mandate is "helping men
and their families build better lives".
More ..

Study: Child Porn Isn't Illegal In Most Countries

A review of child pornography laws in 184 countries shows that more than
half have no laws that address child pornography.

InformationWeek

April 6, 2006

At a press conference in Washington, D.C., the International Centre for Missing
and Exploited Children (ICMEC) and other participants, including Microsoft,
presented a study on Thursday revealing the woeful inadequacy of child pornography
laws around the world.

ICMEC's global policy review of child pornography laws in 184 Interpol-member
countries showed that more than half have no laws that specifically address
child pornography, and in many others the existing laws are insufficient.

"It's hard to arrest and prosecute if you don't have the legal foundation
on which to build," said Ernie Allen, ICMEC president and CEO.

The ICMEC study found that possession of child pornography isn't a crime
in 138 countries. In 122 countries, there's no law dealing with the use of computers
and the Internet as a means of child porn distribution.

"One of the greatest challenges we are confronted with is child safety, child
protection, and child rights," said Baron Daniel Cardon de Lecture, chairman
of ICMEC. Most of the countries in the world, he said, "have no meaningful system
to adequately and effectively combat sexual exploitation of children."

Only five countries--Australia, Belgium, France, South Africa, and the United
States--have laws deemed adequate by ICMEC to address the issue.
More..

Laws on Corporal Punishment of Children from around the
World

Like Britain, countries such as Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Austria
had a defence to assaults on children similar to our s. 43. These defences
were removed between 1957 and 1977. The criminal law of these countries
therefore gives children the same protection from assault as it gives adults.
Beginning with Sweden in 1979, these countries also amended their civil
child welfare laws to expressly prohibit corporal punishment so that the
public fully understood it was illegal.
More..

Parents who are more punitive tend to have aggressive children. But a
new survey suggests that when parenting practices change, a child's behaviour
also changes.

The results of the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth
(NLSCY) suggests children show higher levels of aggression, are more anxious
and less altruistic when parents have a more punitive parenting style.
More..

Committee to Repeal Section 43 of the Criminal Code of
Canada Which Allows Hitting Children to "Correct" Them

The Repeal 43 Committee is a national, voluntary committee of lawyers,
paediatricians, social workers and educators formed in 1994 to advocate repeal
of section 43 of the Criminal Code of Canada.

It is an offence under our Criminal Code to use force against anyone
without their consent. This right to personal security is the most fundamental
of all human rights. It is a protection against assault that all adults
take for granted.

Children do not have the full benefit of this protection because section
43 of the Criminal Code justifies hitting children for disciplinary or "correction"
reasons. This violates a child's right to the equal protection and benefit
of the law guaranteed by our Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

It contravenes the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the
Child. It violates a child's dignity and shows a lack of respect. It
can lead to serious physical and emotional harm.

Over 400 organizations from across Canada that deal with children are
against corporal punishment
www.Repeal43.org

Read how the federal and provincial / territorial governments
of Canada haven't implemented the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Children
(CRC) in Canada

Senate of Canada hearings on child rights
(2005, 2006 & 2007)

The construction of a legal framework required to fully satisfy obligations
under a United Nations convention to protect children will be an ongoing
process in Canada, Justice Minister Irwin Cotler told the Senate Human Rights
Committee on Monday.

Mr. Cotler said that each new law or regulation passed by Parliament
will continue to obey the rules of the Convention on the Rights of the Child,
as with all international norms. However, he stopped short of endorsing
complete compliance with each one of the Convention's elements, some of
which have provoked controversy since its UN approval over 15 years ago.
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KINGSTON, Ont. (CP) -- An Ontario woman who was sentenced to 16 years
in prison in one of Canada's stiffest penalties for child abuse will be
released on full parole after serving less than half her term.

Lorelei Turner, 38, and her husband Steven were convicted of manslaughter
in July 1995 for beating and starving their three-year-old son John to death
in a case that horrified Canadians who followed the trial.
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Canadian appointed U.N. High Commissioner for
Human Rights

Louise Arbour took up her duties on July 1, 2004 as United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights. Her term in office ended in June 2008.

Mrs. Arbour was a member of the Supreme Court of Canada immediately preceding
her appointment to the UN as Commissioner for Human Rights.

This profession — and all of us in it — have failed to protect, honour,
and defend one of our most accomplished and distinguished members. We have
let Louise Arbour down by our silence when she needed and deserved voices
of support.

On July 1, Arbour stepped down as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights,
an enormously prestigious and important international position.

The gratitude and praise which greeted her at the end of her term was
shamefully muted. Arbour was a courageous champion of human rights, and
a bold critic of the erosion of those basic tenets in our world.

She was never timid. She was never chained to a desk, was involved, hands
on, outspoken, and challenging. She breathed life into the enormous portfolio
that she was asked to take on.
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VANCOUVER - A B.C. man who performed a botched circumcision
on his four-year-old son on the kitchen floor of his home has
lost an appeal of his conviction and been found guilty of a more
serious charge.

The B.C. Court of Appeal has stayed the man's conviction for
criminal negligence causing bodily harm and convicted him of
aggravated assault.

Court heard the boy was born premature at only 2.5 pounds and
could not be circumcised at the time, nor did his parents
request it.
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Canada's
national "Child Day"

November 20th

Canada's "Child Day" is held on November 20th each year as designated
by the Parliament of Canada in 1993.

It commemorates the United Nations adoption of two landmark documents
concerned with the human rights of all children and youths.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — A western Pennsylvania mother has been charged with
giving her 13-year-old daughter drugs and alcohol so the woman’s
boyfriend could impregnate the girl without her knowing, police said
Thursday.

Shana Brown, 32, is no longer able to have children but wanted to
have a baby with her current boyfriend, Duane Calloway, said Uniontown
Police Detective Donald Gmitter. The pair decided to drug the girl so
Calloway, 40, could have sex with her, he added.

“There’s some sick people on this case,” Gmitter said.

Brown has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child,
turned herself in Thursday and was being held in the Fayette County
jail, police said. Brown’s attorney did not return a call for comment.

Calloway faces several counts of attempted rape. He was arrested
Wednesday and remains in jail. It was not immediately clear whether he
had an attorney.

The three attacks occurred in Brown’s home in Uniontown, about 50
miles south of Pittsburgh, according to the criminal complaint.
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CORNWALL, Ont. — Male victims of childhood sexual abuse need
specialized support services and a provincial ombudsman dedicated to
their plight, the Cornwall inquiry heard Friday as the $40-million probe
drew to a close after three years of testimony.

The inquiry, established to examine institutional responses to
allegations of sexual abuse in eastern Ontario, spent the majority of
its final week hearing submissions dealing with allegations that a
pedophile clan operated with impunity in the city for decades.

Lawyers at the inquiry cast the clan stories as fabrications spread
by a misguided police officer and embraced by a panic-stricken
community.

On Friday, the submissions focused on healing and reconciliation for
the community and victims.

Following a complaint in 1992 that a former altar boy had been
sexually abused by a priest and a probation officer, many others came
forward to allege they had also been abused by prominent people decades
ago.

Many of those complainants were men, and a lawyer for the counselling
group The Men's Project said even though there were a lot of community
services in the city at the time, none could adequately handle men's
counselling.

"In fact, they had to bring in my client from Ottawa because they
were the only ones with expertise to deal with this," David Bennett told
the inquiry.

"Even though there were existing social services they just weren't
able to deal with it and (that's) why there needs to be a specialized
area."

Both The Men's Project and the Victims Group urged the commissioner
to recommend that the Ontario government create victim treatment service
centres for male survivors of sexual abuse province wide.

Both groups also called for the province to create a sex abuse
ombudsman.

"There has been a theme from survivors of not being believed, getting
the run-around, being kept in the dark, which for some had the effect of
re-victimization," the Men's Project said in its written submissions.
"An ombudsman could rectify this."

In addition, the government needs to remedy how treatment for sexual
abuse victims is funded, the Men's Project said.
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This overview paper summarizes recent research on girls who exhibit aggressive
and violent behaviours. It defines relevant terms, outlines factors which may
contribute to girls’ aggression and violence, and presents ideas for preventing
these behaviours. A list of resources is also included. 2002, 13p.
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The verdict on zero tolerance is in and it isn't good. Designed to
protect women from abusive partners, the rigid, 'one-size-fits-all'
strategy too often ensnares couples who feel remorse after an argument
gets a little out of hand. 'Calling 911 is like pressing the nuclear
button. You cannot call the missiles back,' one lawyer told Kirk Makin,
who looks at the devastating impact of a policy that wasn't meant to
ruin lives and destroy marriages.

The Globe and Mail
January 11, 2003

After bickering all day Saturday, the tension in the house as night
fell was unbearable. As Gerald and Elena prepared to put four-year-old
Emma to bed, Elena finally snapped.

"She started throwing stuff and attacked me in front of my daughter,"
recalled Gerald, a 41-year-old computer analyst. "It was a total loss of
control. My daughter was crying and I was scared. I panicked and called
911."

Then he barricaded himself in one of the bedrooms of his snug Toronto
townhome and began singing lullabies to calm his daughter. The child's
crying seemed to enrage Elena more. She grabbed the phone and told an
911 operator that her husband intended to kill her. More..

Academically, boys across the country are lagging behind the girls,
but a Montreal public school has seen dramatic improvement by separating
the sexes in classes. It allows teachers to tailor curriculum and style
to suit each sex. The result? The number going on to college has nearly
doubled. INGRID PERITZ reports

MONTREAL -- The teenage girls at James Lyng High School like to flirt
with boys. They like to tease them, joke with them, even date them sometimes.
But attend class with them? As the giggling girls in one math class this
week might say, "Gross."

Luckily, they don't have to. Coed James Lyng splits boys and girls up
at the classroom door. The division of the sexes is credited with helping
turn a faltering inner-city high school into an education success story.
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Social Behavior Among Monkeys May Be More Nature
Than Nurture

University Of Chicago
Medical Center

Science Daily
December 12, 2003

An unusual experiment with monkeys who were switched between mothers
shortly after birth has demonstrated the importance of nature over nurture
in behavior.

Young monkeys reared by a mother other than their own are more likely
to exhibit the aggressive or friendly behavior of their birth mothers rather
than the behavior of their foster mothers, a University of Chicago researcher
has shown for the first time.

The discovery of inheritability of social behavior traits among non-human
primates has important implications for people as it reinforces other research
that suggests that such characteristics as sociability and impulsive aggressiveness
among humans may have a genetic basis, said Dario Maestripieri, Associate
Professor in Human Development at the University. The work with monkeys
may help other researchers understand the biological origins of characteristics
that promote socialization among humans, he said.
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Toronto - As a female friend of Frances Elaine Campione put it, this
after Ms. Campione was charged on Wednesday with murder in the death of
her two young children, "That mother needs a hug."

In that line, widely repeated in Toronto and national media outlets,
is a telling clue to what is so wrong with much of what happens both in
the nation's family courts and in its child-protection system -- the pervasive
view of the female of the species as constantly nurturing (except, you know,
when she allegedly kills) and as in need of constant nurture (hugs all 'round,
no matter what).

For the record, Ms. Campione was arrested two days ago after she phoned
911 to report that there were two dead children inside her Barrie, Ont.,
apartment, and shortly after, didn't police arrive to find the bodies of
her own little girls, one-year-old Sophia and three-year-old Serena.

She and her estranged husband Leo were reportedly in the throes of a
nasty custody battle, with Mr. Campione accused of assaulting his wife and
the older child, and Ms. Campione allegedly alarmed, and/or depressed, at
the prospect of losing that fight.

And The Globe has confirmed that involved with the family was the Children's
Aid Society of Simcoe County. At the moment, the nature of that involvement
is unknown -- except as it has been reported by neighbours who saw social
workers at the apartment and say that, for a time recently, the girls lived
with their paternal grandparents.
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